Conferences, Symposiums & Talks

Imaging Pasts and Futures: creative digital practices in the arts

Imaging Pasts and Futures

Date & Time

Fri 22 Nov – Sat 23 Nov 2024
See symposium programme here

Location

Block F Level 2 #F201 (Fri) and #F202 (Sat), LASALLE's McNally Campus

Admission

Free. Click here to register for the symposium.

Type

Conference

Hosted by RMIT University School of Art and LASALLE College of the Arts.

Imaging Pasts and Futures: creative digital practices in the arts is a symposium for artists, designers, academics and creatives bringing together key thought-leaders and practitioners. Through a series of invited panel presentations and keynote presentations it examines how new technologies are being used by artists, designers and creative practitioners to interpret and transform knowledge systems and cultural narratives.

This event focuses on projects and research exploring cultural heritage (tangible/intangible) and new technologies through archiving, mapping, preserving and extending cultural memory and intergenerational learning, disappearing spaces and places, digital and/or hybrid museologies. It is also interested in how new tools, technologies and methods are being developed across creative sectors to image pasts and futures. It also seeks to highlight experimental practices in independent art spaces and arts organisations and how these are imaging pasts and futures. 

Visit symposium microsite here.

Keynotes

Dr Christian Thompson AO
Artist and Adjunct Industry Associate Professor, RMIT University

伍韶勁 Kingsley Ng
Artist and Associate Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University

Themes 

  • How new technologies are being used by artists, designers and creative practitioners to interpret and transform knowledge systems and cultural narratives 
  • Cultural Heritage (tangible/intangible) and new technologies – archiving, mapping, preserving and extending cultural memory and intergenerational learning, disappearing spaces and places, digital and/or hybrid museologies 
  • New tools, technologies and methods that are being developed across creative sectors to image pasts and futures 
  • Experimental practices in independent art spaces and arts organisations and how these are imaging pasts and futures.

Supported by: An initiative under RMIT's Singapore Country Commitment; LASALLE College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries; and RMIT University School of Art